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Quote by Herman Melville
He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say

He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. – Herman Melville

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. – Herman Melville

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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing ones mind. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Persistence is a strong will. Obstinance is a strong won – Anon.

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Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see? – English Proverb

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